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Jacob 5:41 · Moses 7:28

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Book of Mormon Jacob 5:41
"the Lord of the vineyard wept"
Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:28
"looked upon the residue of the people, and he wept"

"the Lord of the vineyard wept" (Jacob 5:41) and "the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and he wept" (Moses 7:28) each show a divine figure weeping over a people about to be lost. The verbal overlap is a single word — "wept" — plus the narrative formula "And it came to pass that"; a thematic parallel offered for the reader to weigh, not a textual dependency. The pairing is selected, not exhaustive: the corpus carries the image elsewhere — most closely Luke 19:41, where Jesus beholds the city and "wept over it" before pronouncing its destruction, and the risen Lord's weeping at 3 Nephi 17:21–22, there over joy rather than loss — disclosed, not registered. Jacob 5:41 separately anchors the registered vineyard family (Isaiah 5:4, 2 Nephi 15:4).